Top Choice Clique
A friend of mine was looking for an up-tempo hip-hop track for a film, and Hua Hsu recommended the following.
Unrelatedly, James Carmichael very much enjoyed the less festive= “Queens Get the Money.”
I just purchased a couple of Tilly and the Wall albums and I particularly like “Falling Without Knowing,” which sounds extremely late ’80s. It occurs to me that my first crush was on (embarrassingly) a brunette hippie vocalist from the late ’80s, or possibly a girl from a Pop Rocks commercial. It’s funny how these things linger. So anyway, the music of that moment still resonates with me, as is the case with music of the Top Choice Clique era. I haven’t fully assimilated the Fleet Foxes EP and LP, so track recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Buying the new Ladytron has repaid me a hundredfold in musical entertainment. I really want to buy the new Jay Reatard compilation, but I can’t find it as yet in a convenient format.
Why is it that Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam feel no obligation to understand ANYTHING of intellectual history, and instead insist on an infantile view that the world began with them, that THEY can declare the contradiction of “welfare conservativism” as their great philosophical discovery? What a load of fatuous guff! Just STOP TALKING. STOP WRITING. You are BEYOND IGNORANT.
— ReaganWeeps · Jul 3, 04:38 AM · #
In no particular order my favorites are
White Winter Hymnal
Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
Your Protector
Blue Ridge Mountains
Oliver James
Bad Education—Tilly and The Wall: listen to it! Then go see them live.
— CrashingCymbal · Jul 3, 05:57 AM · #
well….i have never seen welfare conservatism articulated brilliantly before, but then im an intellectual child of the interwebs.
perhaps Reihan an Ross are just bringing the gospel to my demographic.
speaking of teh gospel, some gospel hiphop for the conservos.
The Cross Movement: Holy Culture
my favorite track— Rise Up!
i think Reihan an Ross REPRESENT!
— matoko_chan · Jul 3, 01:52 PM · #
I would enjoy seeing ReaganWeeps expand this writing into a kind of rap. Ideally Reihan could then do the rap in one of his little videos, ReganWeeps could critique it, and we could go full circle.
— Sanjay · Jul 3, 03:36 PM · #
You know, you often see a happy song scored over disturbing imagery (Wall-E‘s opener, Strangelove‘s closer, e.g.), but you rarely if ever see its contrapuntal opposite: a deeply disturbing song scored over lively, ostensibly happy imagery.
With that in mind, I nominate Immortal Technique’s “Dance with the Devil” for your friend’s presumably up-tempo, festive sequence. That way, when Heath Ledger tells your friend later this summer that he’s changed things, your friend can nod and say, “Yes I have.”
— JA · Jul 3, 04:01 PM · #
you rarely if ever see its contrapuntal opposite: a deeply disturbing song scored over lively, ostensibly happy imagery.
I saw Das Rhinegold last weekend, which ends with the gods, happy and victorious, ascending a rainbow bridge into Valhalla, but backed by an ominous score and the mournful wailing of the Rhinemaidens.
— Trevor · Jul 3, 08:11 PM · #